That Time of Year

By Marie Ndiaye, Jordan Stump (translator),

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"Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement." ―The New York Review of Books

Herman’s wife and child are nowhere to be found, and the weather in the village, perfectly agreeable just days earlier, has taken a sudden turn…

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Creepy, charming, and set slightly outside the realm of lived experience, this tale of a man left behind in a resort town when his family returns home (or do they?) somehow becomes a gripping, vital tale about the existential crisis that is human life.

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